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authorAlex Legler <alex@a3li.li>2015-03-08 22:02:38 +0100
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+
+<glsa id="200411-02">
+ <title>Cherokee: Format string vulnerability</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ Cherokee contains a format string vulnerability that could lead to denial
+ of service or the execution of arbitary code.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">cherokee</product>
+ <announced>November 01, 2004</announced>
+ <revised>May 22, 2006: 02</revised>
+ <bug>67667</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="www-servers/cherokee" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">0.4.17.1</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="le">0.4.17</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ Cherokee is an extra-light web server.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Florian Schilhabel from the Gentoo Linux Security Audit Team found a
+ format string vulnerability in the cherokee_logger_ncsa_write_string()
+ function.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="high">
+ <p>
+ Using a specially crafted URL when authenticating via auth_pam, a
+ malicious user may be able to crash the server or execute arbitrary
+ code on the target machine with permissions of the user running
+ Cherokee.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All Cherokee users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=www-servers/cherokee-0.4.17.1&quot;</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-1097">CVE-2004-1097</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Mon, 1 Nov 2004 10:17:11 +0000">
+ koon
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Mon, 1 Nov 2004 11:49:51 +0000">
+ koon
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 1 Nov 2004 15:51:07 +0000">
+ jaervosz
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>